This auction is for the following book - if you have any questions just let me know.
Book Title - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) illustrated New Edition from New Plates
Book Author - Mark Twain
Book Publisher / Year - Harper & Brothers Publishers New York & London // copyright page bottom has D-L which I believe represents April 1936
Book Condition - Dust Jacket has top and bottom spine chipping, spine darkened, some light soil and a few closed tears including several small intersecting lower left front - that piece at bottom left front of DJ looks like it may come loose so please assume that it has - it is barely hanging on. DJ is perhaps VG. Boards are sharp and bright with a few light spots near top edge. Top edge is dusted - gilt titles overall bright. Book has very minor gutter foxing at pastedowns - minor. Pages are sharp and binding very solid. Book is easily VG+ if not near fine. This is a later edition but sharp and has the original DJ which is scarce.
Book Content -Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, the narrator of two other Twain novels (Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective) and a friend of Tom Sawyer. It is a direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. Set in a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist over 20 years before the work was published, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing satire on entrenched attitudes, particularly racism.
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